IN BRIEF
Chief Justice Rehnquist
hospitalized with cancer
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chief
Justice William H. Rehnquist has
thyroid cancer, a stunning disclo
sure Monday that caught even the
closest Supreme Court observers off
guard and injected into the presi
dential campaign the issue of ap
pointments to America’s most im
portant legal panel.
Rehnquist’s diagnosis was an
nounced in a terse statement issued
by the Supreme Court. It said the
80-year-old widower who has led
the court for a generation under
went a tracheotomy during the
weekend and was hospitalized but
expected to be back at work next
week when the court resumes hear
ing cases.
Left unsaid was Rehnquist’s con
dition at the National Naval Med
ical Center in suburban Bethesda,
Md., and which type of thyroid can
cer he has. About 23,600 people de
velop various types of thyroid can
cer each year in the United States.
Most types are considered treatable,
but many variables exist.
—The Associated Press
.j PROFILE J
Second-oldest chief justice in history
William I I. Rehnquist, hospitalized for cancer, is the second
oldest chief justice to preside over the Supreme Court.
Birthplace/age - Milwaukee, Oct. 1,1924; 00
Education - Bachelor's and master's degree, Stanford
University, 1948; master's degree, Harvard University, 1949;
law degree, Stanford University, 1952
Career - U.S. Army Air Corps soldier, 1943
46; law clerk to Justice Robert H. Jackson,
1951-53; private practice in Phoenix, 1953
69; assistant U.S. attorney general, Office of
Legal Counsel, 1969-71; named to Supreme
Court by President Nixon, 1972; elevated to
chief justice by President Reagan, 1986
Family - Wife, Natalie Cornell,
now deceased; three children
Ken Jennings breaks
Jeopardy record
Ken Jennings, a software engi
neer from Salt Lake City, has shat
tered records on the TV game show
“Jeopardy!” His run began June 2.
Here’s a look at Jennings’ streak:
Money won on show aired Mon
day: $30,000.
Money won so far: $2,006,300,
thus breaking the $2-million barrier.
Perspective: At the start of its 20th
season last fall, “Jeopardy!” changed
its longtime rule that said a champi
on must leave after five straight wins.
Now a player stays until losing. Jen
nings now has the longest winning
streak in game show history.
Final Jeopardy: The clue: “The
brother of this leader is believed to be
the first known European to have
died in the Americas. ”
— The Associated Press
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Australian military suffers
first direct attack in Iraq
Roadside bombings across Iraq kill at least eight,
including an American GI and Estonian soldier
BYT1NI TRAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Bombings
struck four coalition and Iraqi mili
tary convoys and a provincial gov
ernment office Monday, killing at
least eight people, including an
American soldier and an Estonian
trooper in the Baghdad area.
Coming a day after the bodies of
nearly 50 Iraqi military recruits were
found massacred, the bombings oc
curred as a U.N. agency confirmed that
several hundred tons of explosives
were missing from a former Iraqi mili
tary depot in an insurgent hotspot
south of Baghdad.
The revelation raised concerns that
the explosives fell into the hands of in
surgents who have staged a spate of
bloody car bombings, although there
was no evidence to link the missing ex
plosives directly to the attacks.
On Monday, a roadside bomb in
western Baghdad killed one U.S.
soldier and wounded five, the U.S.
military said.
An Estonian soldier died when a
bomb exploded at a market just out
side Baghdad as his patrol went by, the
Estonian military said. Five other Es
tonian soldiers were wounded.
A car bomb also targeted an Aus
tralian military convoy 350 yards from
the country's embassy in Baghdad,
killing three Iraqi civilians and wound
ing nine people, Iraqi and coalition offi
cials said.
“This is the first time that ... Aus
tralian vehicles have been attacked by
direct enemy action,” an Australian
Defense Force spokesman, Brig. Mike
Hannan, said in Canberra, Australia's.
Two Islamic groups posted Web site
claims of responsibility for the attack
on the Australians. One was posted in
the name of Jordanian militant Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi's group, renamed
Al-Qaida in Iraq. The other claim was
made on behalf of the Islamic Army of
Iraq. It was impossible to determine if
either claim was genuine.
Al-Zarqawi's group, formerly
known as Tawhid and Jihad, has been
blamed in numerous suicide car
bombings and beheadings of foreign
hostages, including deadly twin bomb
ings inside Baghdad’s highly secured
Green Zone, which houses the U.S.
and Iraqi leadership.
The Islamic Army of Iraq has
claimed responsibility for the August
abduction of French journalists Christ
ian Chesnot, 37, and George Mal
brunot, and other kidnappings.
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Grave robber says hit man
just a joke between friends
Jack Harelson said he was just kidding around in a secret
police tape of talk about hiring someone to kill four people
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BY JEFF BARNARD
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEDFORD — Convicted Indian
grave robber Jack Harelson testified
Monday that he was just kidding
around and “being gross” when a
police informant secretly tape
recorded him talking about hiring a
hit man to kill four people.
“It wasn't a joke,” Harelson, 64, said
under cross examination by prosecutor
Clay Johnson in Jackson County Cir
cuit Court. “It was a BS — a couple
guys talking and being gross.”
Harelson did not deny informant
Brian Doland's testimony — which
was not backed up by a tape record
ing because the device hidden in
Doland's pocket failed — that
Harelson said “One down, three to
go,” when shown a staged Polaroid
photo of the first target pretending
to lie dead in a shallow grave.
However, Harelson said he could
tell the person in the photo — opal
mine partner Lloyd Olds of Brook
ings — was not really dead.
Harelson was the final witness in
the trial. Judge Lorenzo Mejia told
jurors they will begin deliberating
the case Tbesday morning following
his instructions on the law and final
statements by the prosecution and
defense lawyers.
A former insurance agent and
amateur archaeologist, Harelson is
on trial on charges he gave a police
informant three black opals to pay
for a hit man to kill a judge, a police
detective and two partners in an
opal mine for their parts in his 1996
conviction for stealing ancient Indi
an artifacts — including the mum
mified remains of two children —
from Elephant Mountain Cave in
Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
Prior to the start of his trial last
week, Harelson pleaded guilty to
two counts of corpse abuse for his
handling of the remains, which po
lice found without their heads
buried in the garden of his Grants
Pass home. The heads have since
been recovered.
The prosecution has said they
will seek a sentence of 10 to 12
years in prison if they win convic
tion on the remaining charges of
conspiracy to commit aggravated
murder, attempted aggravated mur
der, solicitation to commit murder,
and being a felon in possession of a
firearm.
Mejia denied defense attorney
Robert Abel's motion to dismiss the
case on grounds of gross govern
ment misconduct, but Abel will still
be able to argue that police en
trapped Harelson by offering him a
hit man to do something he never
would have done on his own.
Pressed to explain what he thought
was going on if Doland was not
showing him proof of a murder,
Harelson said he didn't know, but
was upset that Doland, whom he
wanted to do some work around his
house, was spending time with Olds,
against whom Harelson had once
filed a lawsuit over the opal mine.
Harelson denied Doland's testi
mony he had chuckled upon being
told Olds was dead, but acknowl
edged throwing the photo into his
wood stove, because Doland “told
me to.”
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